Buffered Systems

Buffers can be found in other types of systems. A railway crossing is a place where two modes of transportation, system based trains/trams and automobility based vehicles meet. The system of the railways controls and creates temporary boundaries between these modes of transport. When the arms of the crossing fall across the road, time delays are formed between the boundary formation and the train/tram passing, and the spatial distance the boundary creates between road and rail. In this case, the spatial and temporal distance is a safety mechanism, designed for the organisation of transport.

This suggests that buffers are utilised to prevent damage or injury to the subject; that buffers essentially form a shield against the dangers of the environment. This makes objective sense, as the closer in proximity that the kinematic subject comes to an object, the greater the potential of the contact between the subject and the object. In the motion of a speeding vehicle, heavy contact with an external source usually results in a catastrophe of destruction. In such a circumstance, quicker responses and changes in the control of motion are required, and thus the kinematic subject experiences a greater intensity of ecstatic movement. Thus, the decline of distance reactively results in the increase in ecstasy. Where control is not available and this reaction is not directly possible (eg in cinema), the decline of distance results in the anticipation of an increase in ecstasy.